Blogging your way to TV

I used to think I could turn my Livejournal entries into a television series one day (not that I actually would, but I had thought I’d have a decent amount of material for a base). While I still think it’s true, I don’t think I could put enough good material onto print (electronic of course) from my head to do this. Plus there’s the little matter of my life not being that interesting to want to do a TV show, but hey that hasn’t stopped some people (oh do I really have to name them?).

Anyways, it turns out that the blogger who writes “Greek Tragedy” (which I had never heard of before today) has not only got a book deal like a number of other bloggers, but is also getting a show based on her life, at least according to this NY Times article (found via Buzzworthy). Sounds like the same attractive girl’s romantic life in New York City formula that has been fairly successful in the last few years (again, do I really need to name names?). What’s interesting about this to me though is the fact that she became so famous from her blog that it was able to get her all of this. Once again, it proves that people are able to put themselves out into the public eye (for better or for worse) with nothing more than a PC and an Internet connection, as been the case for some time. With a good search engine and a simple blogging tool, the barriers to fame are growing smaller and smaller.

BTW, if you wondering what kind of show I would have liked to write about, I would have loved to have made a college life show in a Scrubs (the best show I never seem to watch-which I hope they put on syndication soon) sitcom type format with a narrator (maybe more than one) and the cut scenes that clip to their thoughts. It’s still a decent concept, though, I’d probably only take elements of my life to make the show and not actual real life events or people.

2 Replies to “Blogging your way to TV”

  1. Scrubs!!!

    Scrubs sitcom type, eh? Thaz been done already by Fox…remember the very short-lived Undeclared? If you’re gonna make a show based on college life, please just give it some hint of believablility.

  2. Re: Scrubs!!!

    I was afarid it would be like that show. I never saw it, so I never had any idea. Oh for sure it’d be believable (that is Berkeley believable)…

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